ScratchMyTail.com » WordPress http://www.scratchmytail.com My little tech blog Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:21:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WordPress you are awesome http://www.scratchmytail.com/2008/12/15/wordpress-you-are-awesome/ http://www.scratchmytail.com/2008/12/15/wordpress-you-are-awesome/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:15:19 +0000 ScratchMyTail http://www.scratchmytail.com/?p=6 Today I finally decided to install WordPress version 2.7. I have never used any blog engine before so this is my first try using one. So far (couple of hours) I am very impressed by the choice I made. Previous blogs I’ve had running were homemade. I never finished programming the functionality in those so they were kind of crappy. What I have learned is: Why program the whole system yourself from scratch when you can download WordPress for free? The number of plugins available for WordPress is also one of the main reasons why I chose it.

Changing theme is very simple, you just copy the theme folder into /wp-contents/themes. The theme I’m running now is called Plainscape. It doesn’t contain any images so it’s very lightweight which is awesome. Keeping the theme lightweight will probably not overload this poor web-server I’m using. I will probably test more themes in search of the perfect one.

Another reason why I chose this engine is because of the native WordPress application you can download for the iPhone. The application is available for free in App Store. Now I can post blog posts with images from everywhere without access to a computer.

Stay tuned in my new ninja-blog.

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